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2 days ago
5 min

Overcoming my fear of speaking

The Shy Child Sent to Stagecoach I wasn't a naturally expressive person in the sense that as a child I was incredibly, painfully shy and...

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Carly Slade

Jan 20
3 min

Emotions as allies

Every year I get braver and braver in meeting my emotions and it seems the more resilience I develop the more challenging the emotional...

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Carly Slade

Jan 4
5 min

Outgrowing our stories

I used to think January 1st was a funny time to start a year but as I've more closely observed nature I see that it is less arbitrary...

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Carly Slade

Dec 8, 2020
5 min

Your Wild Heart

If my heart and I had a status it would definitely be 'it's complicated' but in recent times I'm starting to feel that we're actually in...

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Learning to harvest the crop and settle in for winter

Carly Slade

Aug 13, 2020
4 min

Learning to harvest the crop and settle in for winter

Living close to nature and on a farm keeps me deeply connected to the seasons and cycles of nature, which in turn serves as a daily reminder

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Don't we all deserve a life worth living?

Carly Slade

Jul 31, 2020
8 min

Don't we all deserve a life worth living?

The last few months have really had me reflecting even more deeply than usual on cyclical living and the pace of modern life. A couple of

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Carly Slade

May 3, 2020
5 min

Yoga and obsession

I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body. I exerci

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Carly Slade

Apr 30, 2020
2 min

Intimacy and Isolation

So those of you who know me will know that one of the big things I've had to work through is a fear of intimacy in intimate...

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Untethering the mind and drifting into stillness

Carly Slade

Feb 25, 2020
3 min

Untethering the mind and drifting into stillness

Thinking is becoming a lost art, not just worrying, planning, remembering, judging and all of the usual mind fluctuations we cram into the b

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Part 9 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Existential Explorations, Kośas, Merging Yoga Nidra & Everyd

Carly Slade

Nov 18, 2019
6 min

Part 9 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Existential Explorations, Kośas, Merging Yoga Nidra & Everyd

This is the stage that seems to keep people coming back for more week after week. At the beginning of class I often have a check in and open

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Part 8 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Joy, bliss and pure awareness

Carly Slade

Oct 14, 2019
4 min

Part 8 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Joy, bliss and pure awareness

Our human brains are primed to problem solve for our survival but for many of us our survival needs are no longer about life or death and th

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Part 7 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 7 Visualisation

Carly Slade

Oct 8, 2019
3 min

Part 7 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 7 Visualisation

This week we explore the visualisation stage of Yoga Nidra. This stage is perhaps one of the most varied in terms of its delivery,...

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Part 6 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 6 Breath Awareness

Carly Slade

Oct 1, 2019
5 min

Part 6 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 6 Breath Awareness

This week we explore the breath awareness stage, which also sometimes includes body/floor awareness for grounding. To Breathe Well is to...

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Part 5 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 5 Opposites

Carly Slade

Sep 24, 2019
6 min

Part 5 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 5 Opposites

During the preceding stage of rotation of consciousness we induce relaxation of the sensorimotor surface of the brain and then during the op

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Part 4 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 4 Rotation of Consciousness

Carly Slade

Sep 16, 2019
8 min

Part 4 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 4 Rotation of Consciousness

The body scan can be used to promote relaxation and body awareness, to invoke or deepen a trance state, to promote healing by reconnecting t

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Part 3 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 3 Sankalpa

Carly Slade

Sep 10, 2019
6 min

Part 3 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 3 Sankalpa

Sankalpa loosely translated from Sanskrit to English means a vow to your highest self or highest truth. Some schools of Yoga Nidra believe t

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Choosing radical acceptance of self and others

Carly Slade

Aug 6, 2019
2 min

Choosing radical acceptance of self and others

All that you admire in others is that which you already are All that you reject in others is that which you reject in yourself These are wo

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Self understanding is a precursor to self love

Carly Slade

Jun 11, 2019
2 min

Self understanding is a precursor to self love

To understand what is happening the body and why is a basic human right. We should be taught from before our very first period how we can gl

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A Wild Woman is not a Girlfriend she is a Relationship with Nature...

Carly Slade

May 1, 2019
5 min

A Wild Woman is not a Girlfriend she is a Relationship with Nature...

The importance of it being hosted by a man is that it made me realise that I must be rebuilding my trust in men to be listening to them as a

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You deserve to be loved without conditions

Carly Slade

Apr 18, 2019
3 min

You deserve to be loved without conditions

We all deserve to love and be loved without conditions and we are all worthy and valuable without need to prove anything to anyone.

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